DIMENSIONS: (unframed) Â 17.5 x 25.0 inches (44.5 x 63.5 cm)
SIGNATURE: Signed ‘Jean Dufy’ and dated (lower right);
Label from Herman C. Goldsmith, NY verso
MEDIUM: Pencil on paper
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Bateaux au Port, 1924
£12,500
In Bateaux au port Dufy has recreated the hive of activity of a busy working harbour using his distinctive crisp calligraphic manner and controlled, masterly draughtsmanship.
The 1920s saw Dufy move back to Paris and lived in the artistic quarters of Montmartre. The music and art of the Parisian culture scene during the post-war years influenced Jean Dufy definitively in his power of expression in colours, but at the same time he was drawn time and again to nature and to landscape representation. This work, drawn in 1924, is from that artistic period when he was highly influenced by the sea and the wider countryside.
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Herman Goldsmith, thence by descent;
Property from a Distinguished Manhattan Collector
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Biography
Jean Dufy was born in 1888 in Le Havre in Normandy and came from a large, musically as well as artistically, very talented family. His older brother was the well-known painter, Raoul Dufy. Dufy’s career began with a mercantile apprenticeship – he only gradually discovered his love of painting. When visiting an exhibit in Le Havre in 1906, featuring impressive works by Matisse, Derain, Marquet and Picasso, he decided to become a full-time artist.
When he returned from military service in 1912 he moved to Paris. In 1914, Jean Dufy presented his watercolours for the first time in the Galerie Berthe Weill, receiving great recognition. After this success he was encouraged to work tirelessly on his paintings of landscapes, animals and flowers. By 1916, Raoul and Jean Dufy worked together for textile studio Bianchini-Férier, also developing flower and animal designs for the Lyon porcelain manufacturer Théodore Haviland de Limoges for thirty years.
In 1920, he returned to Paris and lived in the artist quarter Montmartre, a direct neighbour of Georges Braques. In 1925, Jean Dufy received the Gold Medal at L’ exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs for designing the porcelain service “Châteaux de France”. He exhibited consistently for the subsequent years.
In 1950-60, Dufy took numerous trips abroad, and his impressions from these were reflected in his work. He died on 12th May 1964 in La Boissière in France.
